Does Office for OSX need Office 2001?

[mwhesson]

I'm trying to clear up some room on my hard drive, and I see that
Office 2001 takes up about 400mb of space. I'd like to remove it
because I don't use the Classic environment on my Mac. The thing is, I
upgraded from Office 2001 to Office X back in late 2001/early 2002.
During the upgrade, I was asked for details about the Office 2001
installation and I'm not sure why exactly--perhaps just to confirm that
I was eligible for the upgrade. So my question is, does Office X,
installed as an upgrade, make use of those Office 2001 files in any
way? If I delete the Office 2001 folder but keep the Office X folder,
will I have problems running Office X under 10.3.9?

Thanks in advance for the help,
-Michael

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I'm trying to clear up some room on my hard drive, and I see that
Office 2001 takes up about 400mb of space. I'd like to remove it
because I don't use the Classic environment on my Mac. The thing is, I
upgraded from Office 2001 to Office X back in late 2001/early 2002.
During the upgrade, I was asked for details about the Office 2001
installation and I'm not sure why exactly--perhaps just to confirm that
I was eligible for the upgrade. So my question is, does Office X,
installed as an upgrade, make use of those Office 2001 files in any
way? If I delete the Office 2001 folder but keep the Office X folder,
will I have problems running Office X under 10.3.9?

If you ever have to reinstall Office v X (say, after an Erase & Install of
OS X, or if you replace your computer) you would need to have the Office
2001 CD available if you no longer have 2001 installed, in order to do the
Upgrade again. Just inserting the 2001 CD (if you've copied the Office X
folder from _its_ CD to your new hard drive, since you can't have two CDs in
the drive at the same time!) will be good enough. You don't actually have to
have 2001 installed.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
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